If you were listening to the fire horn in Verona on Sunday night, you may have heard an unusual combination: 2-2-2-2. It’s a pattern of emergency horns that tells Verona’s volunteer firefighters that their help is needed in a neighboring town and they need to report to our two stations for their assignments. The...
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The Verona Fire Department almost had to be in two places at once on Monday night. Just before 8 p.m., the VFD got a call to head to Cypress Avenue and Ann Street near F.N. Brown elementary school. Another wire had come down, and was dangling in the street. But no sooner had the...
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The Town Council took time out from last night’s budget presentation to recognize the Verona Fire Department for its work on quickly bringing the large fire at 34 Morningside Road under control last Monday. Mayor Teena Schwartz praised the dedication of the VFD’s 50 members, 35 of whom responded to the blaze, many still...
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The Arson Unit of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has completed its investigation of the Memorial Day fire at 34 Morningside Road and concluded that there was no foul play involved. According to a spokesperson for the Prosecutor’s Office, the fire has been ruled “electrical”. Since 1999, fire and police departments in Essex County...
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A house at 34 Morningside Road went up in flames yesterday in a blaze that caused firefighters from several towns to respond. According to the Verona Fire Department, the call came in around 12:30 p.m. and the first arriving firefighters were met with heavy smoke conditions at the front of the house and heavy...
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The Verona Fire Department responded to a call at 384 Bloomfield Avenue on Tuesday morning. According to the VFD, the fire started at about 10:30 a.m. in a second-floor bedroom when a mattress caught fire. A neighbor dragged the flaming mattress outside onto the porch, which caused the porch to catch fire, doing suffered...
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The Verona Fire Department responded to a call early this morning at 88 Pompton Avenue. Something, likely a cigarette butt, had gotten tossed into the much around the building’s landscaping and set it on fire. The blaze was quickly knocked back, but the incident should be taken as a reminder: The long, arid summer...
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Caldwells Patch is reporting this morning that a major overnight fire has devastated the Caldwell Diner. Firefighters from many towns around our area had to respond to the blaze, which went to three alarms. No word yet on the cause. The story is here.
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While the rest of us were grilling or chilling at the Verona Pool yesterday, the Verona Fire Department had a rather spectacular car fire to attend to. Firefighter Laura DeWitt tells us Engine 10 was the first to arrive to the mid-afternoon limousine fire, followed Engine 16 and Truck 12. The fire was knocked...
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Verona firefighters responded swiftly to a chimney fire at 78 Lakeside Avenue, just beyond Pease, about five-thirty Friday evening. The half-dozen emergency vehicles on Lakeside and Pease, including three fire trucks and assorted emergency vehicles, caused quite a commotion in rush-hour traffic. Clearly, somebody was paying more attention to the fire than to the...
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